as every news agencies does. cnn' date=' fox, msnbc all spin the news to their favor. the media sucks.[/quote']

 

 

no no no ... the gov't that controls the American media sucks.... so much for feedom of the press and freedom of speech!!! :lol:

na, the goverment doesnt control it, not as much as the rest ofthe world.

^ ...of course the government controls the media.

But all goverments Do. But with fox its pro republican and cnn is pro democrat.

But all goverments Do. But with fox its pro republican and cnn is pro democrat.

 

 

 

no no no!!! THE PRESIDENT!!!! his government.. he doesnt care about the people... people my ass!! lol

 

You'll see.... once you start to vote.. you'll see the government for what it really is.. a popularity contest.. who wants to control everything!! Mainly its republicans... lol but any politician only looks after themselves....

 

but back to topic.. yes the government controls the media... ALL of it!

 

(psst everyone gets their news from one source.... the Associated Press)

^what did you mean by the rest of the world being in control?

I didnt..... :stunned:

na' date=' the goverment doesnt control it, not as much as the rest ofthe world.[/quote']

 

^sorry, i was referring to mrcool001's comment.

OooooooOOh!! hehheheh :blush:

^ you're just very quick to respond, or it could also be b/c of my slow connection...ha ha.

:embarrased: I didnt get to 14000 over night you know!!! lol My connection is super fast!! :P

no no no :angry: i think (and wish) that chris was serious about that

maybe not all shareholders but capitalism surely is pure evil, i mean i deal with the consecuences everyday living in a third world country... and that's what is so great about Chris, he realises about the situation and actually does something about it, maybe it's hard for some of you to understand, but rich countries really explote poorer ones... man, if only you could see true poverty and really exploted-fucked up-underpayed farmers... if you don't believe me just come to my country, i can show you this if you want to...

^ no one is saying that Chris was wrong.. or that he was talking bollocks or that it was all a joke. I just think his comment was taken too literal. Surely there are greater evils... but I think that second article I posted sums it up all nicely.

 

:)

I think Chris did mean what he said, that shareholders are evil. He just needs to qualify what type of shareholders he means...

I think he was referring to those corporate evil types with loads of money, who just invest in something to earn profit - not us small-timers who invest our life savings in retirement funds or the stockmarket. Speaking or earnings, of course everybody needs to make a profit in order to survive but these big-time shareholders don't care about the welfare of the thing/people they invest in, they'll just make money where it is to be made, no matter how much they trample on the little people or how much they damage the thing it is they are investing in...

 

A prime example would be the recent take over of the UK soccer club Manchester United by Malcolm Glazer (of the Tampa Bay Bucaneers fame). This guy just arm-twisted his way into becoming the biggest shareholder regardless of the vehement opposition of the fans. He managed it also because of another "evil" pair of shareholders who care natta about ManU or what it means to football... John Magnier & JP Magmanus- they sold their shares in the company coz the price offered by Glazer was too good. They didn't care at all that the company would then go into debt because Glazer didn't have the actual money to pay and had to finance the takeover via loans (aka "finance companies")

 

It think Chris was referring to this kind of conglomerate shareholder(s) in EMI as well... I mean for such a big company EMI surely must be owned by a big shareholder that can apply a lot of pressure on it to perform up to the mark. I'm sure it isn't owned by hoardes of music lovers like us who would wait for good music.

 

Sometimes though I do think it's stupid that these big shareholders don't know the "product" (aka Coldplay in this case) they have invested in... I mean sure, bands may delay their albums and still produce bad music but I think if you're gonna invest in EMI (and one of their major artistes is Coldplay), then u should at least know to some extent what Coldplay are all about, and know well enough that this band knows its stuff and trust it to do the right thing when it comes to their music and not screw it right?

 

Sometimes I swear these people don't f*cking hell know what they're doing... :rolleyes: As Chris would say, they should just "f*ck off..." and leave the world in peace... It sure could be a better place without them.

 

Does all this make any sense?

this guy just posted this on the official... I think we all need to send this guy, John Gibson, hate mail... however today's rant isnt on the site yet... I say we wait.. and then send the hate!!!! :sneaky:

 

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156986,00.html

 

So far, the dialogue hasn't been updated for what this guy said today. Hopefully they'll release it soon.

 

Let me introduce myself.

 

I like Coldplay, but I probably wouldn't join a Coldplay forum. However, what I saw on Fox News' show (don't ask me why i was watching fox) The Big Story w/ John Gibson, made me sign up for this to make sure you all see what I saw. Chris Martin was quoted saying that stockholders are the great evil of this country. I would have said the same thing if it was them who were at least mostly at fault for depriving me of well-deserved money. However, it was just a few comments, not like he's got an agenda against all shareholders. It's not a news story, maybe something that could go on the CNN headline news ticker, maybe.

 

John Gibson went off on a two minute rant about how shareholders are the reason behind the success of the economy and all the shit we already learned in high school economics class, but the whole time he was slandering Chris so hard that I believe the only way for Chris to settle it is by challenging John to a duel. How a major NEWS show can get away with slandering someone viciously for 2 minutes based on a non-newsworthy story, is beyond my belief. Plus he topped it off by saying the CD retails for $20 and said that because of this "incident", no one will buy it.

 

Fox News, Fear and Maliced

 

I guess they would do, with his anti war stance this channel should be banned

Gibson hit the nail on the head and as always his wisdom shines forth. Fuck Chris Martin and his hypocrisy and his Thom Yorke complex.

Oh Did He...

 

Gibson hit the nail on the head and as always his wisdom shines forth. Fuck Chris Martin and his hypocrisy and his Thom Yorke complex.

 

Mr. Tool...Yeah that's right, because Chris Martin decides to keep the prices on CD's across the board high and on average about 15US even though it costs less than a dollar to produce each CD...Yeah it's Chris doing that, not the damned record companies and their larger multi-national conglom bosses keeping the prices high right...No wrong, Gibson's dead wrong and your just a little moronic sheep following your leaders command...Gibson's commentary the piece of crap that he slapped together has no substance or bite b***h ,like you punk another ill informed fool...now get your hack right wing a** off the boards...

Fox News sucks.

 

exactly

who gives a shit what they think?

some perspective here people!

Fox News is and has always been fanatical right-wing drivel. How is this news? That news network is like a tabloid with a Republican slant. Who cares what the dude has to say, in the end it's just hastily written shit that doesn't deserve our time. It's not really that big of a thing.

Fox News sucks.

 

exactly

who gives a shit what they think?

some perspective here people!

 

I could care less, I know Fox News is a bunch of right wing hacks...But a lot of people don't, especially in the red states of the good ole USA. They take what Fox News says as "News"...Get it, you have to attack a cancer at it's source and if you think FN didn't have an affect on the 2004 presideantal election you're kidding yourself...When you attack them, they will attack back or front like they know as in the attack on Chris, but in the end these right wingers don't have a leg to stand on when you look at the details of the issues.

But all goverments Do. But with fox its pro republican and cnn is pro democrat.

 

 

 

no no no!!! THE PRESIDENT!!!! his government.. he doesnt care about the people... people my ass!! lol

 

You'll see.... once you start to vote.. you'll see the government for what it really is.. a popularity contest.. who wants to control everything!! Mainly its republicans... lol but any politician only looks after themselves....

 

but back to topic.. yes the government controls the media... ALL of it!

 

(psst everyone gets their news from one source.... the Associated Press)

 

no no no, the president does care about the people. and the president doesnt control the media, well not all of it. because most of it is agaisnt bush, cnn, cbs, nbc all are very anti-bush.

na' date=' the goverment doesnt control it, not as much as the rest ofthe world.[/quote']

 

^sorry, i was referring to mrcool001's comment.

 

there are many more goverments with more control on teh media then in the u.s.

no no no' date=' the president does care about the people. and the president doesnt control the media, well not all of it. because most of it is agaisnt bush, cnn, cbs, nbc all are very anti-bush.[/quote']

 

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Fox News is and has always been fanatical right-wing drivel. How is this news? That news network is like a tabloid with a Republican slant. Who cares what the dude has to say' date=' in the end it's just hastily written shit that doesn't deserve our time. It's not really that big of a thing.[/quote']

 

umm so its not ok for fox to lean right? I mean the left has cnn, nbc and cbs. we have on news station that leans right. crying out loud!

no no no' date=' the president does care about the people. and the president doesnt control the media, well not all of it. because most of it is agaisnt bush, cnn, cbs, nbc all are very anti-bush.[/quote']

 

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